"Apache Kafka: Real-time Scalable Data Pipelines" by Dan Cook

Kafka now powers some serious use cases and companies, take a look at http://bitly.com/2f8HQ0j, for both real-time alerting and ETL pipelines at scale.We’ll look at:The properties of Kafka that prevent data loss and enable you to scale to enormous proportions.Technologies that complement Kafka to enable the building of real-time alerting and ETL pipelines.When Kafka isn’t a good fit and you should just stick with your tried and trusted Apache ActiveMQ.